51st AAAM Annual Scientific Conference - AAAM 2007, Melbourne (Australia). 15-17 October 2007
Summary:
We investigated whether the rating obtained in the EuroNCAP test procedures correlates with injury protection to vehicle occupants in real crashes using data in the UK Cooperative Crash Injury Study (CCIS) database from 1996 to 2005. Multivariate Poisson regression models were developed, using the Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) score by body region as the dependent variable and the EuroNCAP score for that particular body region, seat belt use, mass ratio and Equivalent Test Speed (ETS) as independent variables. Our models identified statistically significant relationships between injury severity and safety belt use, mass ratio and ETS. We could not identify any statistically significant relationships between the EuroNCAP body region scores and real injury outcome except for the protection to pelvis-femur-knee in frontal impacts where scoring "green" is significantly better than scoring "yellow" or "red".
Keywords: Accidents, Automobile bodies, Medicine, Regression analysis
Published in Annals of Advances in Automotive Medicine, pp: 281-298, ISSN: 1943-2461
Publication date: 2007-10-15.
Citation:
M. Seguí-Gómez, F.J. López-Valdés, R. Frampton, An evaluation of the EuroNCAP crash test safety ratings in the real world, 51st AAAM Annual Scientific Conference - AAAM 2007, Melbourne (Australia). 15-17 October 2007. In: Annals of Advances in Automotive Medicine, vol. 51, ISSN: 1943-2461
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